According to Cornfeld, Ryan — the pet parrot of Eustis Street resident Helen Levich — has essentially ruined his summer with its incessant squawking.

“It’s consistently making noise,” Cornfeld told the License Commission Tuesday night. “It keeps me up at night, it wakes me up in the morning. It’s totally altered my life. I used to work at home and I no longer do. My wife and I used to eat on our porch every night during the summer, and we didn’t this year because of the noise.”

The commission, which handles violations of the city’s noise ordinances, said it would revisit the issue on Oct. 22 if a resolution had not been reached by then.

But Cornfeld, who described the offending parrot’s call as either “a truck backing up, a broken smoke alarm or a high-pitched ‘koo-kee,’” said he’d asked Levich several times since she moved in to the apartment at 36 Eustis St. to either move the bird to a different room or close her kitchen windows. Cornfeld also said he frequently sees the bird in its cage out on Levich’s back porch.

“It’s gotten to the point where I’ll be at work getting ready to come home, and I’ll think to myself, ‘Maybe I’ll work just a little longer so I don’t have to hear that bird,’” Cornfeld said. “Even when it’s not going on, we’re waiting for it to happen.”

“We don’t want to have this kind of conflict,” Cornfeld’s wife, Susan Lax, said. “We just want to resolve it.”

Levich, who’s had Ryan in her family for nine years, said she couldn’t understand Cornfeld’s hostility toward her bird, and denied many of the claims Cornfeld made during the hearing, including that he offered to buy her an air conditioner if she would keep her windows closed.

“This has been an insane situation for six months,” Levich said. “None of the others in my building have complained about this noise.”

Levich’s daughter, Valerie, explained that her mother can’t keep her windows closed in the summer because of the heat in their second-story apartment, and that the bird doesn’t like being put in any of the other rooms.

“It gets dark, and I think the bird gets a little lonely,” she said. “The kitchen is sunnier. It a gradual process trying to get the bird used to the idea of being in another room.”